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President Barack Obama visit 3

President Barack Obama visit 3

Penn State engineering students Pat Allen, left, and Hiroki Ota explain research to President Barack Obama and U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu during a visit to the Architectural Engineering Structures Lab on the University Park campus on Thursday, Feb. 3. Their work under Associate Professor Jim Freihaut, not pictured, centers on improving energy efficiency in window fabrication. Obama would speak later in the day at Rec Hall about the newly enacted research collaboration with the Energy Innovation Hub for Energy Efficient Buildings at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, a federally-funded research initiative led by Penn State.